Alberta's daycare controversy : : from 1908 to 2009-- and beyond / / Tom Langford.
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province.Alberta’s Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, c2011. ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (406 pages) :; charts; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: research strategy, themes, and scope
- Early efforts to organize day nurseries, 1908-45
- The 1960s: citizen action, civil servants, and municipal initiatives lead the way
- The 1970s: governments fund high-quality day cares as preventive social services
- Years of turmoil, 1979-82: a new system for day care is born
- From corporatized chains to 'mom and pop' centres: diversity in commercial day care
- Day care in question, 1984-99
- Municipalities and lighthouse child care, 1980-99
- Day Care into the future: trends, patterns, recent developments, and unresolved issues
- Appendix A: supplementary tables
- Appendix B: list of taped interviews.